Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After indignantly denying that she had fired Town Marshal James Rigas for confiscating tavern punchboards, 270-lb. Mayor Maggie Waltho of Soap Lake, Washington took the job herself, silenced carping critics with a crisp, "In a fourth-class town, what the mayor says goes...
...pages, signed columns and display ads it offers all things to all people. It is the housewife's guide, the politician's breakfast food, a bible to hundreds of small-town editorial writers. A classless paper, it is read on the commuter trains from swank Lake Forest, and on the dirty "El" cars taking workers to the stockyards. (The Colonel once banned foreign titles from his pages, still insists on simplified spelling, i.e., "frate" for freight...
...short and stuffy life there had never been anything like the meetings of the Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press, gathered at Lake Success last week to erect an agenda for a full-dress conference next year. The ten men around the wide table made no set formalized speeches, pillowed no punches in diplomatic niceties. They flubbed parliamentary procedure and generally had a fine time talking frank talk. With one exception, they were men who had worked long at journalism. The exception was tweedy, dry-humored Zechariah Chafee Jr., Harvard professor...
Cleveland then asked him to brighten up the Great Lakes Exposition. For Cleveland, Billy dreamed up a water ballet "with Lake Erie for a stage and Canada for a backdrop." He called it the Aquacade, and in 1939 brought it east to New York's World's Fair...
John R. Meyer, of 2933 N. Lake Drive, Milwaukoo, Wisconsin, a graduate of Milwaukoo Country Day School...